Advanced Concrete Technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Concrete Technology (subject code ME01000111) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 47 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME01000111)Unit 1 Sustainable Development concept, Introduction of Recent advances in
- Concrete Technology
- Sustainable Construction Practices: world scenario
Unit 2 Supplementing Cement Materials (SCMs)
- Review of types covering pulverized fuel ash, ground granulated blast furnaces slag and silica fume
- Rice husk Ash, manufacture
- physical characteristics
- effects on properties of concretes
- Admixtures: - Plasticizers
- Super plasticizers
- Curing compounds and their effects on properties of concrete
- Epoxy resins and screeds for rehabilitation – Properties and Applications
Unit 3 Special Concretes
- - High performance concrete
- High Strength concrete
- fiber reinforced concrete
- Light weight concrete
- High density and radiation shielding concrete
- High volume fly ash concrete
- Self compacting concrete
- Green Concrete
- Geo Polymer Concrete
- Reactor Powder Concrete
- Recycled concrete
- Mass concrete
- Sprayed concrete
- Ferro-cement concrete
- pumped concrete
- Roller compacted concrete
Unit 4 Advanced Mixture Design, Design Philosophy - Particle Packing &
- Rheology - Discrete and Continuous approach
- Packing density of powders and aggregates - Experimental tests and Models
- Ternary Packing Diagram
- Mixture Design of Self - Compacting Concrete (SCC)
- pervious concrete
- Aerated concrete
- Ultra high performance concrete (UHPC)
- Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC)
Unit 5 Fresh Concrete Properties, Empirical test for SCC – Rheology, Basics,
- Rheology of Paste and concrete – Pumping
- Plastic shrinkage
- Strength Development
- Maturity Method
- Hardened Concrete Properties
- Factors influencing strength
- Interfacial Transition Zone
- Stress strain relationship – Localization
- End effects
- Loading Conditions
- Dimensional Stability
- Creep and Shrinkage
- Permeability and Porosity
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